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HI 326 Constitutional History of the United States (1)
A study of the development of the
Constitution of the United States
since
Reconstruction. Topics examined include the regulation of interstate
commerce, the
Constitution
and the two World Wars, the New Deal, civil
rights, the Warren court, the Watergate affair, and the recent transition
to conservative constitutionalism. Prerequisite: HI 300 or consent.
HI 342 French Revolution and Napoleon (1)
Analysis of the causes and course of the Revolution in France and the
spread of revolutionary ideas and institutions in Europe, 1789‑1815.
Prerequisite: HI 300 or consent.
HI 344 Europe, 1914‑1945 (1)
The development of the major European countries and of international
relations in the era of the world wars. Prerequisite: HI 300 or consent.
HI 346 Russia in the Twentieth Century (1)
A study of Russia and its transition in the twentieth century from a
backward behemoth to the world’s first socialist state and finally to
a struggling post-communist nation. Topics include the crises of late
Imperial Russia, the Russian Revolution, Stalinism, official and popular
culture in the Soviet Union, the construction of “mature socialism,”
and the collapse of the U.S.S.R. Prerequisite: HI 300 or consent.
HI 347 Britain in the Twentieth Century (1)
Transition from empire to commonwealth, the Irish problem, two
world wars and their consequences, reform, life and letters in England
from 1901 to the recent past. Prerequisite: HI 300 or consent.
HI 349 The Cold War: American and Soviet Perspectives (1)
A study of the Cold War from both the U.S. and Soviet perspectives,
from its origins during the closing days of World War II to the collapse
of the Soviet Union in 1991. Emphasis is placed on the Cold War’s
political and cultural impact on the home fronts, as well as the
interrelationship between foreign and domestic policy. Prerequisite: HI
300
or consent.
HI 385 The People’s Republic of China (1)
An assessment of the history of the Chinese Communist Revolutionary
movement from its inception to the present. Key topics include the
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the Democracy Movement, and
various attempts by the Chinese Communist Party to transform the
economic, social, intellectual, and political landscape of “traditional”
China according to the competing visions–within the Party–of the
nature, means, and goals of Marxist-Leninist Revolution. Prerequisite:
HI 300 or consent.